Here's What You Need to Know About Donald Trump's Kids

The Trumps are a large First Family, with five children ranging in age from 11 to 39. Some of the Trump offspring are in D.C. and others are in New York; the elder set is helping their father in business and politics, while the younger two are focusing on school.

Here’s what to know about Don Jr., Ivanka, Eric, Tiffany, and Barron.

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DONALD TRUMP JR., 39

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Known as Don, the president’s eldest son is his first child with first wife Ivana, a former model. Don Jr. is serving as Executive Vice President of Development & Acquisitions at the Trump Organization.

He’s also a trustee of Trump’s businesses, which include more than 500 companies with $3.6 billion in assets.

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The trust was formed in January, when the senior Trump left his positions at the various companies–though he retained his ownership. Don and brother Eric, along with chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg, said they would make business decisions without consulting the president.

During a speech at a Republican fundraiser in March, Don said of his father, "I basically have zero contact with him at this point," according to NBC News.

Don has a lot in common with his father beyond their name.

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Like Donald Senior, he also married a model (Vanessa Haydon, in 2005), attended the University of Pennsylvania, and has five children: Kai, Donald John III, Tristan, Spencer, and Chloe.

He speaks Czech.

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Mother Ivana was born in what was then Czechoslovakia, and her father Milos lived with the family for a number of years. Don credits his fluency to a close relationhip with his grandfather.

Ivanka, businesswoman and newly appointed special assistant to the president, is perhaps the Trump child most in the spotlight. She is the only daughter of Ivana and is married to Jared Kushner, who is himself a senior adviser to the president. The pair have three children: Arabella, Joseph, and Theodore.

Ivanka became a federal employee in March.

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Ivanka was officially named to an advisory role in the White House, an unpaid position that formalized her consulting with her father. She had already attended meetings with Trump and was in the process of obtaining security clearances; some lawmakers had called for the official move so as to hold Ivanka to federal ethics and financial disclosure rules.

She started several fashion lines that bear her name.

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Like her father, Ivanka enjoys stamping her name on her businesses: “Ivanka Trump,” the company, sells clothes, shoes, handbags, and other goods in department stores. Ivanka took a leave of absence from both her namesake company and from the Trump Organization to assist her father in the White House. In February, Nordstrom said it would no longer sell Ivanka Trump items due to “poor [sales] performance.” Her father took to Twitter, as is his wont, in a controversial post slamming Nordstrom for the move.

Her new book is a New York Times bestseller.

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Released May 2, 'Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success,' offers advice for mothers and women navigating the workplace. Though several critics panned the book, it debuted at the No. 4 spot on the New York Times’ list of bestselling advice, how-to, and miscellaneous books.

Ivanka starred in a documentary film about wealthy heirs more than a decade ago.

In stark contrast to Don Jr.’s proclamation of “zero contact” with his father after the trust was created, Eric says he’s frequently in touch with the president. “My father and I are very close. I talk to him a lot. We’re pretty inseparable,” Eric told Forbes in March, adding that the pair don’t talk government or business.

He ran the Eric Trump Foundation, a charity that raised money for cancer patient at St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, from 2006 to 2016.

He’s a wine enthusiast.

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Eric launched Trump Winery in 2011. He still serves as president of the Virginia winery and vineyard, and in 2013 he nabbed the “Rising Star” award from Wine Enthusiast magazine.

He also loves big-game hunting.

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It’s an interest that drew criticism from groups like PETA in 2012, after photos surfaced of Eric and Don Jr. on a hunting trip. They posed with carcasses of animals like leopards, crocodiles, and elephants.

Eric married Lara Yunaska in 2014 at his father’s estate-cum-club Mar-a-Lago.

In September, the couple's first child, a son named Eric Luke Trump, was born. The baby boy is President Trump’s ninth grandchild.

TIFFANY TRUMP, 23

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Tiffany is the only child of Donald Trump and his second wife, actress Marla Maples. While Tiffany wasn’t seen much during the campaign season—a fact attributed to her senior-year studies at the University of Pennsylvania—she did deliver a speech about her father at the Republican National Convention. And recently, she’s participated in events like the White House Easter Egg Roll.

She is a first-year student at Georgetown Law School.

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After graduating from UPenn (like her father, Don Jr., and Ivanka) in 2016 with a double major in urban studies and sociology, Tiffany moved just a few blocks down the street from the White House to attend Georgetown University’s law school. Georgetown is the alma mater of brother Eric.

Tiff, as she’s known to friends, is part of the so-called “Rich Kids of Instagram” troupe – which includes other celeb offspring including RFK daughter Kyra Kennedy and Gaia Matisse, the great-great-granddaughter of legendary painter Henri. At last count, Tiffany had more than 787,000 Instagram followers.

The youngest Trump is his father’s only child with First Lady Melania. He spent the first few months of his father's presidency inn New York City with his mother, occupying a whole floor to himself in the Trump penthouse—and attending the private Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School.

While every president’s child in the past 35 years has attended Sidwell Friends—the private Quaker school where Sasha Obama is currently enrolled and from which Malia Obama and Chelsea Clinton graduated—the White House has confirmed that Barron will attend St. Andrews this fall.

Barron is fluent in both English and Slovene.

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His mother is of Slovenian descent.

A Saturday Night Live writer was suspended for tweeting a shocking joke about Barron.

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During Trump’s inauguration ceremony on January 20, SNL writer Katie Rich tweeted, “Barron will be this country’s first homeschool shooter.” The post quickly went viral, with Twitter users including Chelsea Clinton condemning both Rich’s words and the idea of attacking a president’s child.

Rich quickly deleted the tweet and then temporarily disabled her entire Twitter account later that Friday. On the following Monday she reinstated her account and tweeted an apology, but by that time NBC had already suspended her from SNL indefinitely.

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